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Show BY INEZ GERHARD TT'S NO WONDER that Ben Grauer is regarded as the out-standing out-standing special events reporter in radio and television. Starting as an announcer, he was switched by NBC to special events reporting and climbed to the top of the heap. He has covered everything from presidential inaugurations to golf matches, UN sessions to eclipsps in Brazil, is much sought after as rf(fif ;il,nl'rt1fl'ili'rl lYmi n tfnr i'it;i iTfrtinftn ri im n Ti i ri -i BEN GRAUER emcee for radio and television shows. Pleasing microphone personality per-sonality and "the gift of gab" have helped make him a success, but the most important factor is his profound pro-found knowledge of politics, sports, psychology, science, literature practically everything he needs to know. Paulette Goddard says that curves are coming back into fashion, fa-shion, so far as the girls of the country are concerned, because men like womenly women. Paulette has practiced what she preaches; she put on 10 pounds for her role as the wayward heroine of Columbia's Colum-bia's "Anna Lucasta" to make the lady alluring, says she looks and feels so well she's going to keep them. When a drama in CBS' "Green Lama" series included two feminine femi-nine suspects named Susan and Leslie only a few of the intimate friends of writer William Froug knew that he was announcing the birth of his daughter, Susan Leslie. 100,000 gallons of water and nine days' work by more than 100 technicians tech-nicians produced the cloudburst which menaces Marguerite Chapman Chap-man and little Natalie Wood in "The Green Promise" all done on j huge stage, indoors, at RKO. |